Personal Narrative: The 52 Blocks

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“ Thus; began the Survival style, the “52 Building Blocks” better known in the streets as 52 Blocks, Jail house rock, Jail house boxing, Comstock, 52hands, Etc. (Most of the younger freedom fighters were trained by those released from Jail, or the martial arts instructors from the community-Alternatively, from both) The 52 Initiation When these brothers were released From Jail they began teaching the younger brothers in the Knowledge of themselves and the Twine style of Boxing called 52 Blocks, they taught them in the schoolyards, the parks and in the neighborhoods. They would form a Cipher, which is a circle (made by a group of people), and begin with ‘The Day’s Mathematics’ and enter into their, ‘120 Lessons. (INSERT …show more content…

organization in Brooklyn. A lot of good brothers and sister worked there, mostly the 5%, our job was to clean up Lincoln terrace park; you would see the brothers demonstrating 52 for fun. At that time I was learning the ‘120 lessons’ (of the Gods and Earths Nation) by word of mouth from brothers named the Pure Mathematics, Jameek Marcey, Ubeka, El (Radar) Rayheem, brown seed Messiah, Universal Zig Zag Zig and Shabazz. Some of them were part of a three cards Monty crew. They also had knowledge of the 52 blocks and other lucrative skills. Shabazz was my age, he would show me his 52, and tell me, “This is the Fathers Twine or way of fighting” (Demonstrating). When we would play fight, I was good with my kicks (From the previous training in karate), so they would say, “Do not use your kicks, unless you have to, ‘when you are outnumbered or cannot win.” “Do not kick, only use your hands like this (Demonstrating) and do pushups to make them strong.” (When I used my kicks, I never had a problem, not even in Jail, Later the God told me “Yes your right, 52 uses kicks,-but if we allowed you to kick, you’ve have kicked all of our

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